Summary
Members of Elon Musk’s private security team have been deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service, granting them federal law enforcement privileges.
The move follows heightened security concerns and death threats against Musk.
While the Marshals Service routinely deputizes officers, deputizing private security is highly unusual.
The extent of their authority remains unclear, but they may carry weapons and make arrests.
The first brownshirts is what it is.
Someone smarter than me said something like “History doesn’t repeat, it echoes.”
It’s sure as fuck echoing right now and folks need to fucking listen.
Not alone regarding to US politics, the whole world eerily feels in a similar turmoil like 100 years ago. Let’s hope enough people recognize the overture of the symphony of horrors that is attached to it. Let’s hope we can turn it around before the true demons of our past come to haunt us all.
Hitler’s mastery of mass media was one factor that allowed the Nazis to come to power. A lot of the checks and balances that resisted lies coming into the public consciousness didn’t work in the new paradigm, and he was able to exploit it and convince a plurality of the German citizens that up was down, right was wrong, and murder was justice.
Now, highly capable organized people have done the same on social media, for exactly the same purpose. We hadn’t even really gotten the Hitler paradigm fixed yet (as with Fox News), and now there is a far more powerful paradigm at play, and the people trying to resist it might as well be squirting a lion with a spray bottle.
That’s 100% what this is. Once they get an unconditional pardon, it gives them free reign to literally murder anyone. Not in self defense, but proactively.
Sorry to nitpick but the word in the quote is “rhymes”
No apology needed, I appreciate the correction!
On Tyranny by Tim Snyder
Working for the clampdown.